How Is West Egg Different From East Egg

In , there
are two cities that are separated by the Valley of Ashes. These two cities are knows as East Egg
and West Egg and there are two different classes of wealth in these cities. They are new wealth
against old wealth.

East Egg has people living in it that are from old money.
They are born into money and have never known anything different. Their parents and grandparents
have all come from money.and her husband Tom are from old money and live in East Egg. The people
in East Egg are known for being well educated usually at ivy league colleges, such as Yale and
Harvard. 

The people that live in West Egg are from new money. These are
people who have worked hard and earned their own money. They haven't depended on inheriting
money and just worked hard. They  have not had ivy league educations and some of them didn't
even go to college. They just went to work. The people in East Egg are seen as corrupt and mean
spirited because they have always had money and never had to work for anything. They are more
concerned about material things. The people in West Egg are seen as less sophisticated and more
innocent about how the elite live their lives.comes from old money, but decides to live in West
Egg.

"I lived at West Egg, the- well, the less
fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a
little sinister contrast between them...Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable
East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I
drove over there to have dinner with the 's. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I'd
known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in
Chicago."

The contrast between these two cities is
great. In East Egg, the people are seen as the wealthy and the elite. In West Egg, they are
looked down upon, only because their money is new money and not old money passed down from
generation to generation.lives in West Egg. He is from new money and his house looks straight
across the water to Daisy's. He has always tried to prove that he is worthy of Daisy and he
thinks that having this money will show her that. 

The two cities represent
the vastly different lifestyles of Daisy and Jay and sets up the tragic events of the
story.